And that gap is increasing overall. It’s extremely concerning for many reasons. If the gap were reversing and worsening for girls, people would be screaming bloody murder and rightfully so. The gap in engineering seems to be 75% in favor of boys. Stubbornly consistent. And yes, within the department there are differences. I will say that CS culture is so toxic that it turned my programming loving boy away. But it’s very Bay Area toxic. Math/physics has no such vibe it seems at the university. Although my boy says it’s very racially segregated. Most girls are of East Asian descent. And biology is completely female dominated. Doesn’t raise eyebrows.

No.

If women are going to dominate medical field and if we prefer to work part time, then we need to really massively increase the number of residency spots and medical school spots in this country. What we have now doesn’t seem to factor in part time work. It’s already hard to get appointments locally. I will say that most jobs are not that friendly to part time work. I was expected to be in the office and put in more than 8 hours per day. I wasn’t in the male dominated profession. In fact most of us in the office were women.

I think that is true of most high paying professions. Medicine for sure as well. Women are still flocking to it. I think it’s ok to study what one is finding interesting. Couldn’t pay me enough to be an engineer.

🤷‍♀️ Women in physics and CS is huge. Red carpet if you are willing to try. I think employers are struggling to hire in that field and pressure is there to show equality. So first you have to produce female engineers before you hire them. I think that’s the obsession. I mean nobody cares at all if other fields are female dominated. Nobody ever bothers to change that ratio or is bothered by imbalance.

UCLA I believe is 60% female overall but despite very heavy emphasis on trying to get girls into physics/engineering, girls are mostly flocking to the pre-med track. I don’t know male to female ratio exactly in engineering there, but my boy tells me physics is heavily male dominated. And so is engineering. My guess is biomes will be balanced because it’s a med school feeder program.

We didn’t label anything honors either. However, my DS had so many AP courses and DE courses that his transcript didn’t need any more boost. AP courses were supported by scores and DE was supported by outside grades. All courses taught at home and even Great Books by CLRC were “normal” on transcript for the sake of consistency.

This so so very helpful.

I think contemporary books have simpler language. Thank you for recommendations. I am going to dig around those titles.

What would be the next step up from Magic Treehouse books? I am teaching an ESL kid and would like recommendtions for children's literature that would be a managable step up from this series. I don't want anything old fashioned and prefer modern books with simplified language. It's for a boy if that makes a difference. I am looking at Charlotte's Web, but I think that's a bigger jump that he can make right now.

My older kid didn’t need to prep to get a near perfect score either. This kid though is a different story. I have old paper exams I am thinking to have him work though those for grammar and math. We will download blue book. Is there anything else out there do you know?

I have a kid who plans on taking this in March. He hasn’t but needs to study for it. I know the reading section is different. What about math? Is there any substantial difference in the math section or can he review with paper SAT math questions?

We didn’t have to enter anything either. It was over in one minute. A piece of cake compared to the financial colonoscopy CSS profile puts you through and then asks you to pay for the abuse. I was worried I messed up fafsa because it asks virtually nothing.

What a mess. We filed without any issues but have heard nothing.

I was on the phone with my friend down in Pasadena and they felt it too!

Drama of American History. Christopher Collier. they are wonderful series of books written for middle schoolers. I have bought them inexpensive on Amazon and own the entire set. My kids still pick them up and read them.

The problem that we found with Bluetent English was the way the classes were set up - too many moving parts. It seemed that you had to do 30 (exaggerating here) different tasks in 30 different places. It didn’t work with any brains in our house. It wasn’t even the amount of work. It’s how it was structured that we didn’t like. But it was a long time ago. I don’t know if things have changed.

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He didn’t take AP Language. We decided on Inspektor’s class given the reviews but then abandoned the idea of AP altogether.

Mine is really thriving. Straight A’s. More sure of his major. “Mind blowing” is how he describes almost every physics class. Amazing faculty and the department. Only thing he despises is general Ed - dumb, massive classes, dumb again. Otherwise we couldn’t be happier. He is back on campus really engaged.

Many privates eliminates all APs here outside of math and science. So they have required English and survey history courses but for those kids interested in history electives, they have those extra courses. It’s not uncommon for kids to be taking two sets of history classes just the same as it’s not uncommon to see stem kids taking two sets of science ones (say AP bio and marine bio, or AP Physics and engineering….)

Our private locally has interesting specialized history classes (focused on regions or events), but they require two years of world history and one year of American in addition. All the extras are electives and kids who love history can immerse into these courses on top of survey results ones. They can’t be used as substitutes though. I wish publics had something resembling this.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/college-acceptance-rates-ivy-league-schools-wealth.html This popped up on Facebook today. It’s fascinating. Looks to me a “white bucket” at these schools is mostly full by legacy and sports. Fascinating how income brackets affect it all as well. And still shocked people pay $50k for consultants.

Mine has two more exams left - one today and one on Friday. Plus a paper due. He should be home Friday night for three weeks.

I would do Environmental Science course. So common for high schoolers and easy to do.